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Uniform Title Fotos aus Sobibor. English.
Title From "euthanasia" to Sobibor : an SS officer's photo collection / edited by Martin Cüppers, Anne Lepper, and Jürgen Matthäus
Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 358 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (black and white)
Contents The Niemann photographs : a unique collection from the Holocaust -- Johann Gerhard Niemann : from Völlen to Sobibor, part 1 -- Photos from the Niemann collection, up to 1942 -- Johann Gerhard Niemann : from Völlen to Sobibor, part 2 -- Photos from the Niemann collection, from the period of Operation T4 -- Realizing the unthinkable Operation T4, Operation Reinhard, and their actors -- Belzec : the first Operation Reinhard Killing Center -- Niemann's photos from Belzec -- The Sobibor Death Camp -- Niemann's photos from Sobibor -- The Trawnikis auxiliaries to the Holocaust -- Reward for genocide : a trip to Berlin for perpetrators from operation Reinhard -- The Berlin album and additional travel pictures -- The revolt at Sobibor and the end of the Death Camp -- Photos of the burial of the SS men killed in the revolt and Niemann's grave -- Henriette Niemann : wife and mother, confidante and profiteer -- Henriette Niemann in the photo collection -- Living with the memory : meetings with Semion Rozenfeld -- Photos with Semion Rozenfeld and a map of Sobibor drawn by him
Summary "The mass murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany went hand in hand with the destruction of evidence attesting to this genocide. As Holocaust survivor Jules Schelvis puts it, "[v]ery few documents relating to Sobibor and the other death camps" remain. With its rich photographic imagery, the collection featured in From "Euthanasia" to Sobibor: An SS Officer's Photo Collection sheds new light on the Holocaust and other key aspects of Nazi extermination policy. The materials were compiled by Johann Niemann, an SS officer whose earlier participation in the Nazi "euthanasia" murders made him second-in-command at Sobibor and the first to get killed in the prisoner uprising of October 13, 1943. These documents allow crucial insights into the making of mass murderers, the evolution of the "final solution," and its consequences for the victims. As prevalent as the perpetrator perspective is in Niemann's collection, From "Euthanasia" to Sobibor offers a welcome corrective by complementing his images and documents with testimonies of Sobibor survivors, many of which also available in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) archives. With its compilation of unique primary sources and skillful explication, From "Euthanasia" to Sobibor addresses under-researched aspects of Nazi mass violence beyond the Holocaust and offers a rich resource for researching and teaching"-- Provided by publisher
Notes "Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Niemann, Johann, 1913-1943.
Sobibór (Concentration camp) -- Pictorial works
Sobibor perpetrator collection (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
SUBJECT Sobibór (Concentration camp) fast
Subject Operation Reinhard, Poland, 1942-1943.
Nazi concentration camps -- Poland -- Pictorial works
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Pictorial works
HISTORY / Holocaust
Nazi concentration camps
Poland
Genre/Form Electronic books
Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
Author Cüppers, Martin, 1966- editor.
Lepper, Anne, editor
Matthäus, Jürgen, 1959- editor.
Luft, Kathleen, translator
LC no. 2022014257
ISBN 9780253064332
0253064333
0253064325
9780253064325